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Diabetes Forecast Researchers

An archive of American Diabetes Association-funded researchers that are featured in past issues of Diabetes Forecast Magazine, the premier lifestyle magazine for people with diabetes.

Published by the American Diabetes Association, this magazine helps people with diabetes and their families live healthy and fulfilling lives by providing comprehensive, accurate, and timely information and support on all aspects of diabetes, including diet, fitness, self-care, and research breakthroughs.

2012 -2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008

2012

	June 2012 Coming Soon!
	May 2012 Kenneth Cusi, MD, FACP, FACE Fatty Livers and Type 2 Diabetes
	April 2012 Leigh Perreault, MD Untangling One Cause of Prediabetes
	March 2012 Corrine Welt, MD Better Care for PCOS Studying women’s genes to find out what works
	February 2012 Kitt Falk Petersen, MD Preventing Type 2 Diabetes in Older People Researcher explores the link between aging and insulin resistance
	January 2012 Philip Cryer, MD Understanding How the Brain Reacts to Lows Unlocking the mechanisms of hypoglycemia.

2011

	December 2011 Meredith Hawkins, MD, and Preeti Kishore, MB, BS The Role of Vitamin D in Type 2 Diabetes Can it help overcome insulin resistance?
	November 2011 Sundar Natarajan, MD Helping People Lower Their "Bad" Cholesterol
	October 2011 Mandana Khalili, MD What's the Link Between Hepatitis C and Type 2?
	September 2011 Natalie Rasgon, MD Diabetes on the Brain Probing the link between insulin resistance and depression
	August 2011 Elsie Taveras, MD, MPH Taking Youth Obesity Serıously Can electronic records help doctors give heavy kids better care?
	July 2011 Joseph T. Bass, MD, PhD Body Rhythms May Govern More Than Sleep The amount of sleep you need—and the fact that your body prefers to get it after the sun goes down—is hardwired into the building blocks of your being.
	June 2011 Katie Weinger, EdD, RN, FAADE Visual Aids for Diabetes Education Can teaching tools help people retain their lessons?
	May 2011 Susan Enguidanos, MPH, PhD Easing the Hospital-to-Home Transition for Latinos Diabetes educators try to smooth Latinos' road home from the hospital.
	April 2011 Peter Kador, PhD Diabetes and Dental Health Does an enzyme inbalance spur gum disease?
	March 2011 Mario Kratz, PhD How Inflammation Affects Insulin Resistance A researcher looks to immune cells for new clues
	February 2011 Vladimir Ritov, PhD Inside the Cells Researching flaws in the body's "power stations"
	January 2011 No Featured Researcher

2010

	December 2010 Zhengping Yi, PhD Probing Muscle Cells for Clues to Insulin Resistance and Diabetes Zhengping Yi, PhD, examines the proteins within muscle cells to see if faulty signaling could explain insulin resistance in people with diabetes.
	November 2010 Catherine Barnes, PhD, MA, MSN Helping Patients Take Charge of Their Care Care providers like Catherine Barnes, PhD, MA, MSN have begun to realize that most of the hard work it takes to stay healthy happens outside of the doctor's office.
	October 2010 Stanley Hsia, MD, FRCPC, FACE Can Video Games Help People Lose Weight? Researchers want to harness the immersive, addictive power of video games to help people have fun while losing weight.
	September 2010 José Luchsinger, MD, MPH Does Type 2 Care Bolster Brain Function? Researchers are beginning to look at diabetes as a potential contributor to memory loss and other cognitive impairment.
	August 2010 Blandine Laferrère, MD Weight-Loss Surgery's Effects on Diabetes Nearly 80 percent of patients with type 2diabetes who have gastric bypass go into remission. One researcher istrying to figure out what it is that makes gastric bypass so effective.
	July 2010 Abbas Kitabchi, PhD, MD, FACP, FACE Measuring Weight Loss in More Than Just Pounds A researcher compares two diets and the roles played by carbohydrates and protein.
	June 2010 Hillary Bogner, MD Treating Diabetes and Depression What researcher Hillary Bogner, MD, wants to find out is whether treating depression has a direct impact on the symptoms of diabetes.
	May 2010 David J. Ballard, MD, MSPH, PhD, FACP Assessing the Impact of Electronic Health Records Electronic health records have been touted as the future of medicine: Computerized systems keep track of patient progress over time while keeping tabs on doctors and making sure the latest medical research gets used in examining rooms.
	April 2010 Kristi Silver, MD Heading Off Diabetes After a Kidney Transplant Kristi Silver, MD, hopes to find a way to predict post-transplant diabetes before a kidney transplant.
	March 2010 Elbert Huang, MD Developing a High-Tech Tool to Customize Diabetes Care With the help of an ADA grant, Elbert Huang, MD, is working on a computerized, Web-based tool to help doctors and patients customize their diabetes treatments.
	February 2010 Anne Chang, MD Getting Active, Staying Healthy Can aerobic exercise improve beta cell function—and stave off type 2 diabetes?
	January 2010 Pietro Galassetti, MD, PhD A Breath Test for Blood Glucose Making strides in finding an alternative to finger sticks

2009

	December 2009 Joel Gittelsohn, PhD, MS Bringing Healthy Fare to Big-City "Food Deserts" Can better food help stop the spread of diabetes?
	November 2009 Amanda Lochrie, PhD Children's Self-Image Can Affect Their Ability to Lose Weight Talking with nearly 150 children and their parents, the Nemours Children's Clinic researcher Amanda Lochrie, PhD, discovered that kids and parents both underestimated how serious the children's weight problems were.
	October 2009 Susan Harris, DSC Vitamin D and Diabetes Looking for links between the sunshine vitamin and diabetes
	September 2009 No Featured Researcher
	August 2009 Robert Toto, MD Keys to Kidney Disease Making early intervention possible could yield dramatic results
	July 2009 Rodica Pop-Busui, MD, PhD A Healthier Way to Lose Weight A Diabetes Expert Shows That Not All Diets Are Created Equal
	June 2009 Colin Nichols, PhD The Littlest Patients A Deeper Understanding of Neonatal Diabetes Leads to Better Treatment
	May 2009 No Featured Researcher
	April 2009 Kimberlee Gretebeck, PhD, RN A Good Test Run Motivating Older Adults to Exercise
	March 2009 Erica Gunderson, PhD Mother Wit Understanding How Gestational Diabetes Affects Women and Children
	February 2009 Li Wen, MD, PhD A Hygiene Hypothesis Investigating potential environmental causes of type 1 diabetes
	January 2009 No Featured Researcher

2008

	December 2008 Peter D. Reaven, MD The Heart of the Matter Preventing atherosclerosis in people with type 2 diabetes
	November 2008 Michael Goran, PhD Kids, Weight, and Health Examining the links between youth obesity and pre-diabetes
	October 2008 No Featured Researcher
	September 2008 Kendra Rumbaugh, PhD Biofilm’s Nemesis A scientist tackles diabetic wound care
	August 2008 Francine Grodstein, MD Sourcing Senior Moments A scientist plumbs the causes of memory loss in women with diabetes
	July 2008 Scott Weigle, MD The Silver Lining A dietary study that may yet bear fruit
	June 2008 William Kwok, PhD When Good T-Cells Go Bad William Kwok, PhD, and colleagues are looking into why T-cells make the ultimate mistake
	May 2008 Clifton Bogardus III, MD At Work with the Pima Researchers are studying why Arizona's Pima Indian population has the highest prevalence of diabetes in the world
	April 2008 Myles Faith, PhD Parental Involvement Can healthy behaviors be passed down?
	March 2008 John D. Piette, PhD Choosing and Losing Why do some people skip their meds?
	February 2008 Russell Rothman, MD, MPP It All Adds Up Poor math skills can endanger health
	January 2008 Jeffrey Schelling, MD The Future in the Past Looking at heredity’s role in diabetes-related kidney disease.

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